Pawlenty? Romney? Anyone...

Yeah...I'm pretty indifferent to this ticket, but that's purely a Romney thing. I think Mitt's the best guy. Pawlenty is a decent choice but it doesn't get me enthused in any way about November.

From CNN's Political Ticker:

It's VP tea leaf reading season, and a Republican source who attended a small private meeting with John McCain Tuesday in New Hampshire tells CNN that the GOP candidate dropped a serious hint about Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.

The Republican source said "out of the blue" McCain told the gathering that he thinks they are "really going to like" Pawlenty.

One thing I think we can all be certain of is that there's never any certainty with McCain. It really is a crapshoot. Who, seriously, would be surprised if McCain ignored all the politics and electoral implications and picked somebody he just 'really liked'?

Meanwhile, the Boston Herald are excited that Romney is still near the top of the Veep list. They refer to a source close to the Romney campaign (and also Jeff Beatty's letter to Sen. McCain):

Amid increasing buzz John McCain will pick a candidate for vice president this week, a source close to former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney say he is “near the top of a very short list” of Big Mac’s choices.

The Republican presidential contender whipped up speculation about an impending VP decision but declined to give a straight answer during his New Hampshire visit yesterday.

“We’ll announce when we’re ready to announce,” McCain said when asked at a stop in Epping, N.H., if he had decided who would share his ticket. He had grinned coyly when asked about a vice presidential announcement in an earlier media scrum.

I really do hope an announcement comes this week, although obviously it won't. The politicos seem to think that it's perfect timing with Obama fever sweeping the globe, but I actually disagree, I'd make the announcement the day after Obama's back in town; that way they might just be able to curtail the plethora of post-tour worshipping. One thing the McCain campaign also has to be wary of is that they don't overplay this kind of publicity stunt. You don't want to turn into the candidate with the incessant (and thus really annoying) head-fake that everyone stops paying attention to--I think there's an old story about it...something about a wolf with a really annoying head-fake? Anyway, if he continues to tease the public in this way, unless he unveils Hillary (or maybe Lincoln) as his running mate, the announcement is going to be met with a gigantic, story-stealing sigh...a 'this-is-what-we've-been-waiting-for?' kind of a sigh.